David Limp, senior vice president of devices and services at Amazon.com Inc., presents the Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker during an unveiling event at the company’s Spheres headquarters in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018.
Andrew Burton | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services, David Limp, is planning to step down from his role after more than 13 years at the company, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to CNBC Monday.
Limp is the latest in a string of Amazon executives that have departed since Jassy took over as CEO roughly two years ago.
Limp is responsible for overseeing the development of the company’s consumer electronic devices like Kindle, Fire TV and Echo, as well as the Alexa voice assistant. Limp began working for Amazon in March 2010. A spokesperson did not provide details about Limp’s successor.
Limp regularly appeared at Amazon hardware events, which are typically held each fall but sometimes occur more than once a year, to announce new products.
The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
In November of last year, Limp’s division was impacted by Amazon’s decision to lay off approximately 10,000 employees. Andy Jassy, who took over as CEO in July 2021, has been in cost-cutting mode to preserve cash as the company confronts slowing sales and a gloomy global economy.
The e-retailer is consolidating some teams and programs in its devices and services unit after “a deep set of reviews” of the business.
Shares of Amazon were largely unchanged in extended trading Monday.
.png "A Quick Comparison of Search Engines")
